when i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared a pakistani girl who survived a u.s. drone attack travels to washington to tell congress how her home was destroyed and her grandmother was killed. also this week angered by n.s.a. spying and delegation fails to get explanations from u.s. officials germany turns to edward snowden to get answers about the tapping of chancellor merkel's phone. who she. is going to repeat. continuously we hear from n.s.a. leaks reporter glenn greenwald who says u.s. intelligence will continue to harvest data despite how rage from the public and its

allies. and behind the barbed wire reports from inside guantanamo prison where over a dozen detainees are still on hunger strike and a bit of protest over the indefinite detention and mistreatment. of a look back at the top stories for the past seven days and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. a pakistani family who lost their grandmother in a cia drone strike traveled to washington this week to testify before congress. was at the emotional briefing where family members asked u.s. lawmakers why their home was targeted in the first place. this was the first time actual victims of u.s. drone strikes were in congress and apart from the congressman who initiated this

briefing i saw only four other members of congress it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of drone strikes so it's very difficult to expect a sudden change of heart even though hard was what these drone victims were appealing through on a couple twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left this pakistani family devastated a nine year old girl and her thirteen year old brother nearly escaped death that day their sixty seven year old grandmother was killed while picking vegetables in the garden. i no longer love blue skies i prefer the gray skies the drones do not fly when this kinds agree and for a short period of time the mental time and fear eases between this the drones return and so does the fear you know this family has never been abroad out of their home in north waziristan and the father of this family said he looked at the life around here. he wished his children to be able to walk the streets not afraid of being bombed at any moment. my mother was killed my children are injured i'm so

glad that people are going to hear our story that's why we came to america they have no idea why our village in my house to talk to. the family came to washington of course hoping to get answers to why they have to live in fear every day i have no idea why my grandmother was when the drone hit i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to run then i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand but a lot kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running. we also learned that the u.s. government did not grant to the lawyer of this family a prominent practice any lawyer who has sued the cia in the past on behalf of the victims of drone strikes in pakistan four hundred fifty thousand population of. the concentration. there being picked up on the issue of what kind of.

for someone who's driving the s.u.v. but this is how they're being targeted and at the same time they're not really in a position to leave the purpose of this briefing was to put a human face to drone strikes there is therefore a chance that in congress the tragedy of this family will fall on deaf ears but there is hope that the public will pick notice in washington i'm going to check out . the u.s. claims few civilians have been victims of the three hundred seventy six drone attacks which have been launched over the past decade local reports however suggest at least nine hundred innocent people including up to two hundred children have been killed documentary filmmaker robert greenwald took the story of the reman family as inspiration for his latest movie and says the public doesn't understand the real consequences of drones. people want to believe in santa claus and they also want to believe that there's a simple solution to these incredibly complicated problems when we started reading

that the drones were killing only high value targets represented in a minute threat that doesn't make sense just not possible so i think there was a kind of hopefulness yes finally we found a magic pill which was part of it some of it is the fact that american soldiers warrant there so people said it doesn't matter what is the you know the family is speaking to all kinds of americans people who have a mother or have a father who look at them and can't justify the killing that we've done and then you have this extraordinary militarily industrial electoral complex bipartisan that agrees that the way to solve problems is by invading occupying and droning we have to change all of a. campaign in pakistan may have thwarted a chance for peace earlier this week a u.s. strike killed the taliban leader in pakistan just as the government was preparing

to start negotiations details coming up later in the program. a group of. week seeking explanations about the n.s.a. spying activities left without his delegation complained the u.s. provided no clarification eavesdropping on world leaders and whether the white house had any knowledge of it they described america's response as feeble and warned it could aggravate relations specifically has been angered by the tapping of chancellor angela merkel's phone is considering asking the man behind all these leaks edward snowden to help explain what happened. and pay the whistleblower. to ask him to give evidence to parliament. basically. i think it's important to work together with mr snowden rather than putting him in prison we'd like more clarity on these allegations and we want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again snowden worked for many years for the cia

and n.s.a. so i'm sure he could tell us everything we need to know about the leaked documents because as we've seen the n.s.a. has been very scarce with providing information and i also think that the organization including n.s.a. chief keith alexander aren't always been truthful they once claimed they'll never break german laws on their surveillance operations but tapping the chancellor's phone is not legal that's why i have trouble trusting u.s. intelligence officials. with the n.s.a. revelations have triggered something of a blame game in washington secretary of state john kerry pointed a finger at the intelligence services claiming the n.s.a. ran certain operations without letting the white house know. is there. so kerry referring there to spying by automatic pilot ali head of the n.s.a.

said the country its is policy makers not the intelligence services who said that targets and journalist glenn greenwald who's been releasing snowden's leaks says well despite this scandal n.s.a. will not scale back its activities. what we've seen you brazil germany firearms india and now speed of course in the states is going to repeat it continuously for the next several weeks or months almost every country around the world the very clear objective is to not just go out but to keep it for as long as they can so the big time. if your citizens are here you are also already begun doing terms of living. and i say whistleblower edward snowden has published a manifesto calling on the world to resist the spread of the surveillance that appeared in the german magazine spiegel which is known for revealing leaked classified documents snowden sent the document from moscow to the editors for an

encrypted channel in the manifesto he insists those who tell the truth are not committing a crime accuses some governments of an unprecedented persecution campaign in response to his leaks and says everyone has a moral obligation to uphold laws and values which limits of violence and protect human rights for my five agent i spoke to a little earlier she supports the manifesto and says whistleblowing should be decriminalised who is actually breaking the or here because all the ground that the fire that she say they are legally allowed to smile next is to appear to be very legally dubious at best but we thing in the last decade is the technological scale of the spying its industrial scale spying and the new technology has allowed that to happen and the laws which is supposed to be and democratically oversee how we are spied on are just not keeping up the twentieth century north and now in the twenty first century tech. after eight months over

a dozen guantanamo bay detainees remain on hunger strike in protest against their indefinite detention and the use of torture inmates are being force fed in a brutal procedure of the u.s. military continues to defend ortiz understudied sent this report from inside the prison. guantanamo every morning at eight am the u.s. national anthem erupts across the beast that holds america's most scandalous prison no one likes to be spit on no one wants to have their own torture hunger strikes and suicides have marred this place since two thousand and two and they're human beings after all they're there's no reason to expect that they enjoy being here you know we pretend otherwise prisoners held indefinitely in the name of the never ending war on terror whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right here to t.f. you know we have the court system determined that in just over a decade a total of seven hundred seventy nine prisoners the majority released without charges today one hundred sixty four remain over half of them cleared for release

but still kept locked up. on the other side of the barbed wire. life is a blast. there is water in there and i guess there's nothing really bad about here just like any common american town now is awfully scared to come here but i mean it's absolutely beautiful place and you get around other stuff getting around the other stuff is not hard a lot of what goes on here is kept under a thick veil of denial and secrecy camp delta house as a hospital and library and this is also the place where patients are force fed and even though the hunger strike is largely and officially said to be over we know that at least fifteen people are continually being force fed here today a tube is passed down through a person's nostril and pushed all the way down to their stomach before it's passed down the nose we lubricate it and we give the patient a choice do they want to have the key which is agent they will

numb the area or if they want olive oil to lubricate the tube. most of our patients have been using all of you seem to like it in fact some of our patients are so. used to this they will describe which nostril they want this while major world medical bodies are in agreement that force feeding is not ethical and should not be practiced the force feeding them i've got my clients of experience to guantanamo they've certainly described it as torture the restraint chair that they're strapped into they actually call the torture chair an arabic force feeding takes up to forty five minutes and is performed twice a day the patients that had the civilian world that said it feel strange i've never heard insisting on. i have not heard that good move fishes are beyond nonchalant about the highly criticized practice you might feel differently from the way i might feel uncomfortable has been the most of it i have heard but they don't even

believe in what this thing anymore because they know it sounds stupid i volunteer that the procedure be demonstrated on me request declined the prisoners who've not met one another and speak different languages keep saying the same thing that we were tortured used. tied. to the chair legs to the ground they. struck across and they forced in a tube into our noses never in thirteen years have detainees been allowed to speak directly to a journalist while remaining it gives only leaking statements through lawyers they would love nothing more than to sit down with journalists and just tell them you know about their daily lives but communicating seems to only occur here if someone was it a point where maybe they had been verbalizing a lot of hopelessness we were immediately intervening and trying to assist that person to make sure that there wasn't any thoughts of maybe wanting to harm themselves or in their lives with charts like these often used to pinpoint

patients despair you asked them how do you feel right now and they'll be able to point to it we have not had a patient in this area. thank you meanwhile six suicides and dozens of suicide attempts have taken place at the detention facility we haven't seen any autopsies the u.s. government hasn't released any formal reports or findings we're now inside two active camps at guantanamo camp five old single cells where the so-called less compliant detainees are held camp number six is one filled with communal cells when officials deem the detainees to be better there will be warded by being allowed to live in groups while detainees are kept away from us what we witness are clean empty prison cells with cozy pajamas colgate toothpaste and maximum security shampoos paraded in front of journalists as proof everything is so much better here than any silly horror stories we all have heard and.

a toxic to. the syrian government dismantles its chemical weapons production facilities but the whole process hangs in the balance while some rebel groups refuse to take part in the process the story more after the break. with. its technology innovation. developments from around russia we've. covered. wealthy british style it's. right on. the. market to. find out what's really happening to the global economy for

a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. is a report. today . these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations. this week syria met the first ambitious deadline on its path to chemical disarmament is successfully dismantled the equipment and the facilities used to produce toxic weapons but the tough task of eliminating the existing stockpiles lays ahead made by the war that continues to rage reports from damascus

dangerous and that's how the nobel prize committee described the work of chemical weapons inspectors inside syria not to mention a deadline october twenty five damascus provides a detailed plan of its chemical weapons stockpiles done october twenty seven foreign inspectors visited all declared sites missed. syria finishes destroying all equipment used in the production and mixing of poison gas and nerve agents done we eliminate. whatever we can but you know this is a very complicated the process complications filled by so called security concerns and that's the reason why one deadline already has been missed one of the biggest problems the clean faces is how to access sites in rebel controlled areas so far the rebels have been unwilling to cooperate for inspectors have managed to visit

twenty one of twenty three sites and although they haven't verbally blame the rebels damascus insists it's doing its share and. those. sites being visited are under government control and we hope those who are controlling. the groups to leave them to implement what they are expected to implement it's the most difficult mission ever undertaken by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons destroying a country's chemical weapons stockpile in the midst of a civil war. syria actually stopped producing chemical weapons in one thousand nine hundred eight as a possessed alternatives that can be a strategic substitution and are not in conflict with international law but none of this answers the reason why foreign inspectors are in damascus in the first place a chemical attack on august twenty first in which hundreds of people were killed off two rockets with seven gas fired at damascus as suburbs those responsible are still at large the next deadline in the destruction of syria's chemical weapons

program is the middle of next year by then damascus must have destroyed removed its entire stockpile and ambitious timeline in very difficult circumstances policy r.t. damascus. the head of syria's opposition coalition says he won't take part in peace talks in geneva until a timetable is agreed for bashar al assad to step down opposition groups have also been accused of hampering the disarmament efforts middle east analysts sharmeen while he believes the reason the syrian government is so happy to help get rid of its chemical weapons is because it removes an excuse for intervention. there is that evidence that rebels have some their hands on some chemical weapons we've certainly seen in iraq and turkey rebels being apprehended with chemical agents components of chemical weapons in their possession and. really important point and this is something i heard from a syrian government official earlier this year the syrian government has first some

time now viewed chemical weapons as a liability and a burden precisely for these reasons because potentially rebels could get their hands on small amounts of these chemical agents and use them across the border in israel or turkey to then justify a military attack against the syrian government so they have been quite pleased that the international community has come together to in fact to read them of these weapons so that excuse no longer exists. i just remind you we've always got more stories which you on our website including facing up to reality the operation of japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant is forced to turn to the u.s. for help in cleaning up the dangerous facility can find out more details on this called where we're closely following the situation in and around the plant. plus john the party boats the secret behind google's floating structures in san francisco bay is revealed a four story high barges will travel up and down america's coastline promoting the

new wearable google glasses for the details along right now see for yourself. the peace process in pakistan has been derailed after a u.s. drone strike killed the country's taliban leader this week it happened just a day before a government delegation was set to start negotiations with the group the country's now on high security alert over fears militants could retaliate by keystones interior minister accused washington of sabotaging efforts to end the violence and the local expert told us that he believes it is the pakistani people who will pay the price. the prime minister of pakistan was in washington d.c. only back and he had spoken to president obama taken him into confidence regarding the dialogue process and it also made a request for the drone attacks to stop because we've. drawn attacks must come to an end before they come to the dialogue be able but instead of the drone attacks being stop big so i mean body who is going to stop or it is going to be the people

of pakistan and not the us the united states does not have the right to be judge jury and executor all rolled into one without any authority a french government proposed eco taxes for the public as thousands hit the streets calling for it to be scrapped immediately. i. the french regional brittany has been rocked by protests which turn violent police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse angry crowds hurling rocks and bottles in response he can tax imposes levies on trucks way more than three and a half tons but it's been suspended until it could drive companies. at least nine people have been killed by a string of insurgent attacks targeting security forces across iraq in the central city of baquba three police officers died and scores were injured after three suicide bombers blew themselves up one after another the surge in violence over

recent months has claimed thousands of victims but the thought is struggling to contain the bloodshed despite wide ranging operations and tighten security. the six people including one child have died after a ferry capsized off the coast of thailand near the popular resort of the time twenty people remain unaccounted for reports of up to two hundred board even though the maximum capacity is one hundred fifty the accident has been blamed on an engine problem which caused passengers to rush to the top of the vessel forcing it to flip on its side. this week it's elise or hundreds hit the streets to demand better social housing conditions for thousands of migrants in the country the street is the only home they have and even the lucky few who are provided with accommodation often regret moving to italy in search of a better knife. as found out. some call it a city within a city others a refugee ghetto it's like a marriage to an african refugees from four african countries over twelve hundred

people crammed inside a former university building in a room now known as palace meeting. here. weren't allowed to film inside the rooms but a doctor treating the refugees agreed to describe the conditions they with but i think. there are thirty five tabs and thirty five showers and eighty percent of them need to be repaired the beds are all seen in very bad condition actually a lot of people sleep in the car thousands of refugees have been flocking to italy mainly across the mediterranean in search of a better life but the country's only economic problems including the worst recession since the second world war provide very little opportunity at the same time. obliges all refugees to stay in the country where they receive asylum those who manage to avoid which a stray shingle further north as illegals but those who don't want local shelters

are running out of space for all the newcomers without a job or even a place to sleep where do you go for the majority it's the train stations to meeting point for possible work or some cash during the day and makeshift shelter at night which is on a bit of let me space so on sometimes immigrants from different countries fight each other like the old band and those from bangladesh for example pennies on what this area they make it out there there are a lot of them here various nationalities at first they came from southern countries now also from eastern once the whole region is full of immigrants. a polish or a dizzying gadget and very strong activity but live well also you'll be. solve this problem the e.u. has pledged. to give an additional thirty million euros for italy to build more shelters for the refugees but it's on lake release will help create new jobs or ease the floor the immigrants all together you've got going off r t. coming

soon here in r t it is venture capital with host katie philbin but before we go to some of the week's images from the olympic flames record breaking journey across russia with less than one hundred days before the winter games in sochi the olympic flame is continuing its ambitious relay it's already been to the north pole and in just a few days will blast off for the international space station the torch is passing through the towns and cities of the world's biggest country currently touring russia's north don't forget at r.t.e. dot com there's a full selection of videos and photos from the lympics flames marathon.

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looks the arabic for doubt me visit arabic don't call. but i will contact you captivates we british prime minister david cameron is being told to think outside of the boat so outside of his pulpit i should say and order to drum up some much needed taps for the country do tell in just a minute all about what was also the furthest corner to have it when the story will be discussed and the implications of that could be to come up in house the best time to show him thomas he's always in the business stuff to tell us what it's been up to the bald guy and gave up your bit of the business which is also supposed to come with that stuff to talk about this to come. so he's hoping to attract muslim on a by becoming the first country to issue an exam

a ball and outside of the muslim walled the u.k. hopes to offer a two hundred million pound islam friendly bond cook as early as next it it will conform to the law which bans interest and gamble a prime minister is also planning to launch a new index boyko explains exactly why mr cameron is so we go to this part of the world the british muslims contribute at least thirty billion pounds to the economy here while u.k. banks offer more islamic services than in any other western country in fact islamic funding has propped up some of the capital's largest developments including the shot on the olympic village but critics say the welcoming approach doesn't go beyond investment british politicians have in the past rejected proposals to recognise shari'a door in certain areas with large muslim populations while the recent debate in parliament centered.